Word: flushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boss Lorne Michaels chose to follow up last year's hit movie Wayne's World with a new stretching of an SNL sketch. The Coneheads, with Dan Aykroyd as Beldar and Jane Curtin as his wife Prymaat, were amusing enough in 11 skits when the show was young and flush, but could they sustain a feature film 15 years and many * zeitgeists later? Affirmative. The movie is funny and sweet -- a vision of genially warped family harmony...
Wright sounds spurned and burned. "None of us wanted to see him leave," he said of Letterman. "But the reality is . . . he walked out of our marriage." And so NBC picks a fight with flush CBS over comic ideas that were hackneyed when Letterman started using them; call it banalimony. That surely describes the high-level mud wrestling over De Forest's Melman. "If you have an actor who's a bumbler," asks Manhattan attorney Stanley Rothenberg, "do you prevent him from earning his living after this series is over? Do you say he can't go and bumble elsewhere...
...that PCBs, pesticides and other toxic chemicals leak into rivers and out to sea, weaken whales' immune systems and drive down their birthrates. Observes Scott Kraus, a marine biologist with the New England Aquarium: "The public gets hung up on whaling, but what's really worse is what we flush down the toilet...
...inches longer," joked emergency- room manager Linda Shoemaker. "We carry buckets here and go home and carry more." Lining up for water at a Des Moines parking lot, Donna Bailey was upbeat in describing her family's coping strategy: "Every surface is covered with bowls of water. And we flush the toilets with rainwater we keep in the bathtub." Doug Riggs, on vacation from his job as a social worker in Marshalltown, drove 75 miles into Des Moines to help out and found himself managing a shelter at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church. But at week's end only...
...battles have raged in the streets of Mogadishu almost daily since 23 Pakistani peacekeepers died in an ambush last month. Blaming Aidid, the U.S. has led U.N. forces in an aggressive bid to flush him out, culminating in a daylight attack on a meeting of Aidid's top commanders on Monday. At the end of a 20-min. barrage of missiles and cannon fire from U.S. helicopter gunships, dozens of bodies lay scattered around the demolished villa. When foreign journalists arrived to view the carnage, an enraged crowd turned on them with stones, guns and machetes, killing four...